Less "move fast and break things", and more "maximized maximization" overkill. You see it all through these threads: any turnover costs money, a sub-optimal em

Less "move fast and break things", and more "maximized maximization" overkill. You see it all through these threads: any turnover costs money, a sub-optimal employee costs too much, everything comes down to cost. Okay, I get it. IT is a cost center. A good company should minimize those costs. There's a point of diminishing returns for everything, and I think we've long since passed it in compensation. I think things would work better if various managers and leaders could accept that they just aren't that smart. Rather than try to squeeze every last bit, accept that they can't, and build it into their businesses. That would mean scheduling time and money to handle turnover. Which would mean running a little "fat" all the time. Since the only metric that matters is "cost", then that doesn't happen. So, an employee leaves, everyone else falls behind trying to not only make up their work, but make time to hire and train someone else. Schedules and budgets are blown. Everyone says "we have to do something", to justify being called "leaders". We've reached a point where everybody is out of ideas. There may some tweak here and there that can be made, but this is it. This is as cheap as things are going to get. The sooner employers figure it out, the sooner things will get better.